Michigan
RE: BYRON SAILOR MEASURED MICHIGAN RECORD WHITE PINE
Fun find for Michigan!
155 feet tall, 15 feet+ circumference, 63-foot crown spread.
Big Tree formula is Circumference (inches) + height (feet) + 0.25 average crown spread = points
https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/10/a-remote-upper-peninsula-white-pine-has-been-crowned-michigans-tallest-tree.html (https://www.mlive.com/news/2021/10/a-remote-upper-peninsula-white-pine-has-been-crowned-michigans-tallest-tree.html)
What an incredible find!
Wow!
A few of us Forum members may have already visited that site. :)
The photo on the welcome page of Just Jim huggin' da big tree was in that very same area.
That's truly awesome! Thanks for sharing that Ron.
Yup, very very close, but by the discription not the tree. Sounds like it's on the Mccormick tract.
We wuz in the northern corner of McCormick Tract. :) If ya remember we parked da machines at a boundary sign and walked a ways in. Check da photos ya took, you may even have one of da boundary sign.
This one?
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10180/100_0838.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1635738083)
yup 8) Did ya happen ta git a pic of da sign were we parked da machines.
I see da early stages of my bald head wuz startin' ta show up back then. :D
Have this pic of the Ottawa Nat'l Forest sign
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10180/100_0941.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1635744853)
And includes the great camp cook (one of several) on the right, Jeff's brother-in-law Pete (may he rest in peace)
Yer da man, dats da entrance sign. :)
An interesting visitor recount of the area. Note the comments at the 3:48 PM point. https://www.summitpost.org/mccormick-tract-nct/354271
A closer look at the sign.. where our host passed member nailhead pointing out something.. maybe the tree location? Pic taken 9/22/2007
(https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10180/100_0940.JPG?easyrotate_cache=1635787845)
Always interesting to hear of those large trees.
I've had the opportunity to go onto the Huron Mountain Club property several times. We hiked back to the location of a large white pine just to see what was around. We didn't bring anything to measure it until the second year. I think I lasered it at 152' tall and somewhere around 5' diameter. Supposedly not the largest on the property but certainly one of the largest.
Clark
Nice big old specimen for sure. :)
Not to boast or noth'n, but the Aroostook, NB white pine is 22 feet circumference, 130 feet tall. But not as nice a specimen as yours in Michigan, it has multiple stems. But it did influence the route of the 4-lane highway. ;)